Thinking pattern

All-or-nothing thinking

You may notice this pattern when things seem to fall into only two categories — a success or a failure, good or bad, with little in between.

An example

"I stumbled over one answer, so the whole interview was a disaster."

A question to sit with

If there were a middle ground here, what might it look like?

Write the thought, then describe the same situation using the words 'partly' or 'in some ways'.